News honored with Texas School Bell Award in education coverage
Brownfield News education reporter Blake Decker and 38 Texas outlets earned School Bell Awards from the Texas State Teacher Association. The News won Outstanding Continuous Coverage, joining Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Brownsville Herald, Corsicana Daily Sun, and Frio Nueces Current. Decker also won Outstanding Collection of News or Features, shared with Star-Telegram reporters and Dallas Morning News writer. This marks Brownfield News eleventh and twelfth School Bell Awards, with Decker the first Brownfield reporter to win independently of the paper.
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Frio- Nueces Current
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Mercie Martin
Lyon
Jobe confident of water resources
Brownfield City Manager Eldon Jobe says Brownfield relies on 90 percent Canadian River water and Lake Meredith is high enough to avoid summer shortages. He warns against drastic cuts like Seagraves and suggests groundwater could cover gaps if a pipeline break occurred, while urging water district planning and local conservation steps.
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Terry County
Asbestos abatement set for this summer
Brownfield ISD trustees awarded VANCO Insulation Abatement Inc. of Midland the contract for Colonial Heights asbestos abatement. The project will also replace ceilings and floors due to a low bid, with air monitoring costs estimated at 20 to 25 thousand dollars. Trustee approval moved up to 275 thousand dollars for the project.
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Roesler
Seaside Boat Ride Reveals Gulf Island Wildlife Tour
A Gulf Coast Press Association prize draw led Linda and I to a bay boat trip near Matagorda Island Port Aransas. Weather cleared after a drizzly morning, and guide Wallace Kelly steered us to Shamrock Island sightings of terns gulls egrets herons spoonbills and brown pelicans guarding nests amid chattering seabirds and offshore waves.
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National Geographic
Seaside voyage and a love of the sea in verse
A narrator recalls summer trips to the Texas coast and the emergence of pelicans in abundance since the late 1980s. The day at sea inspires a poem recitation about wind and waves, sea birds, and environmental progress as a friend guides the crossing of jetties into the rolling surf.
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Brownfield Salutatorian
Cynthia Hardy
Meadow
Clif Carroll
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Union
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Luz Elena Rodriguez
Texas School Bell Awards
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Brownfield High School
Kaci Willis
Ever Olivas
By Blake Decker
VANCO
Clark
BISD
Debbe Roesler
Lynn Brisendine
John Masefield
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